You were being lucid for a second there - hence my wondering who was borrowing your alias at the time.
Bloody didn’t last now did it? :)
It's simply not true to say that 'Kiwis were just piss poor allies at that time'. The watersiders were not part of the military or the government - hardly a position to affect allied status.
If you or someone close to you got caught up in all that bollocks back then, and you're still bitter about it, then it's time you sorted your shit out - it was over half a lifetime ago.
You try to say that the New Zealand paper that touched off this whole thread was somehow significant, and that being so, it supports your silly 'New Zealand employers can't do this' quote from TNA - let me remind you and anyone else who doesn’t understand - obscure papers are often quoted, unsupported, to prop up a flimsy and incompetent argument. If New Zealand employers lost their rights, it’d be news in papers here – and you’d have no problem finding sources. If New Zealand really had no support for the US at the moment, you’d find it in a major paper – but if you want to go on believing bullshit like that, you’re ultimately going to have to start living in a drug or alcohol induced state.
It seems to me that even the glitterati journalists from the Spectator can sometimes fall guilty of believing everything they read...
It goes to show that just because a remote publication on the other world says that something is true, it doesn't necessarily make it so.
Classic example yesterday. Press reports were coming in that the Taliban had shot down a pilotless US spy-plane. No retraction, however, when the subsequent report a few hours later stated that a Taliban officer had claimed that they had shot down an opposition helicopter...
Information travels so quickly now that there simply is no longer time to verify all the facts. In this climate, we should continue to take a skeptical view of everything we see and hear...
After all, wasn't it the US President, Bill Clinton, who said "I did not have sexual relations with that wooooman"? Subsequent information proved that claim to be incorrect...
Kind regards,
Hamish